Joana Sossaman , LPC, LPCC

Joana Sossaman is a licensed counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction concerns, relationship struggles, and trauma. She works with clients in New Mexico and brings a calm, respectful style to sessions. Her approach focuses on practical steps you can try between meetings.

Joana holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential (LPC) and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC). She has seven years of clinical experience and adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs. Sessions aim to be straightforward and goal oriented while honoring each person's pace.

In meetings she listens for patterns that keep problems going - for example codependency, control struggles, or family of origin issues. She also addresses things like panic attacks, isolation, guilt, shame, and compassion fatigue. When trauma or abuse is present she uses established trauma-focused work to reduce its impact on everyday life.

Joana uses tools that may include processing difficult memories and examining personal values and meaning. She helps people explore intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem, and sexuality in a grounded way. The work may combine reflective conversation with practical coping strategies you can use right away.

People often come seeking help after a major life change or when old patterns feel stuck. Joana emphasizes collaboration - you set the goals and she helps map a path toward them. She supports clients as they try new ways of coping and notice progress over time.

How evidence-based approaches translate to online care

Existential work helps people clarify values and life meaning by asking direct, reflective questions about choices and purpose. It can be useful when someone feels stuck after big life changes or when anxiety and low mood make decisions harder.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, often called EMDR, involves guided processing of distressing memories to reduce their emotional intensity. It is commonly used for post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, and symptoms that follow sexual assault or other abuse.

Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on understanding how past hurt affects current behavior and relationships and on building skills to feel more grounded day to day. This approach often pairs memory work with concrete coping strategies for panic, dissociation, or flashbacks.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each client to choose or combine methods based on goals, current symptoms, and personal preferences. That planning helps make sessions feel relevant and practical from the start.

Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow fuller interaction when tone and facial cues matter, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, note-taking, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum during the healing process.